Yep, it’s that time of year again. It’s time to look back at the past year’s finances in the Crumb Saver household. We’ve done these annually now, so you can catch up on previous years here: 2015, 2014, 2011-2013. 2016 was a year fraught with financial change in our home. Here are just a few […]

Remember, O Stranger! Arithmetic is the first of the sciences and the mother of safety.” – Louis D. Brandeis (probably quoting Sophocles) I was a high school math teacher for a couple of years, and it seemed that every couple of months some unmotivated student (usually a slovenly and unkempt jokester slouching in the back […]

Three years ago, we moved into our house at the beginning of August. The grass was growing like gangbusters and with the already daunting task of furnishing the whole place (we had ZERO pieces of furniture), unpacking, and our jobs, you can imagine that the growing jungle in our yard was a constant source of stress. […]

It’s that time again, ladies and gentlemen, when we pull back the curtain and share how much we earned, gave away, spent, and saved in the past year. If you’re new to this blog, we’ve shared our figures before and you can check out the numbers for years 2011-2013 here, and you can check out […]

Well, it’s that time of year again—that time when millions of people collectively lose their minds over a new shiny gadget. Yes, it’s Apple’s annual release of the new iPhone. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus were recently announced and they will be on sale starting September […]

2014 is in the books so it’s time to take a look back at our finances for the year. In a previous post, Our Finances Exposed we gave a synopsis of our finances for 2011-2013, and in Revealing Our Monthly Budget we gave more detail about what we spent from month-to-month in specific categories plus our budgeting philosophy. Check those out first […]

For those of us in America, Thanksgiving is just around the corner and that can only mean one thing: BLACK FRIDAY. What is Black Friday? It’s the largest consumer holiday of the year during which retailers conduct massive limited time sales to launch the official holiday shopping season. Sales start at all hours of the […]

“But it’s so CHEAP!” Haven’t we all heard THAT before? Sometime it’s a flagrant excuse for an obviously wasteful purchase, but more often than not, this is a sincere sentiment. We think we are getting a wonderful deal as we whip out our credit card, thinking of all the reward points we’ll be earning. But how […]

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